base-4.17.2.1: Basic libraries
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GHC.Stack.CloneStack

Description

This module exposes an interface for capturing the state of a thread's execution stack for diagnostics purposes: cloneMyStack, cloneThreadStack.

Such a "cloned" stack can be decoded with decode to a stack trace, given that the -finfo-table-map is enabled.

Since: base-4.17.0.0

Synopsis

Documentation

data StackSnapshot Source #

A frozen snapshot of the state of an execution stack.

Since: base-4.17.0.0

data StackEntry Source #

Represetation for the source location where a return frame was pushed on the stack. This happens every time when a case ... of scrutinee is evaluated.

Instances

Instances details
Show StackEntry Source # 
Instance details

Defined in GHC.Stack.CloneStack

Eq StackEntry Source # 
Instance details

Defined in GHC.Stack.CloneStack

cloneMyStack :: IO StackSnapshot Source #

Clone the stack of the executing thread

Since: base-4.17.0.0

cloneThreadStack :: ThreadId -> IO StackSnapshot Source #

Clone the stack of a thread identified by its ThreadId

Since: base-4.17.0.0

decode :: StackSnapshot -> IO [StackEntry] Source #

Decode a StackSnapshot to a stacktrace (a list of StackEntry). The stack trace is created from return frames with according InfoProvEnt entries. To generate them, use the GHC flag -finfo-table-map. If there are no InfoProvEnt entries, an empty list is returned.

Please note:

  • To gather StackEntry from libraries, these have to be compiled with -finfo-table-map, too.
  • Due to optimizations by GHC (e.g. inlining) the stacktrace may change with different GHC parameters and versions.
  • The stack trace is empty (by design) if there are no return frames on the stack. (These are pushed every time when a case ... of scrutinee is evaluated.)

Since: base-4.17.0.0